Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay, " Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

Any prophet who does not refer you to christ is not a true prophet.

Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

Your word is the power that you have to create

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

I live with all these people, I live with four people that are involved with my music and I call 'em my team and that's what we call GoodLife.